Business Quotes

Businesses, like babies and books, need nurturing, time, energy, love, planning and, yes, money to develop, grow and prosper.

When I was in the business as a young performer, it was a recognised fact that when you got to 60 you were out, because there'd be a new crop of comics coming up all the time, every 10 years or so.

This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it.

I'd like to see myself married with a child and hopefully still involved in the entertainment business as an actor who is also able to write a bit and direct some projects.

A true libertarian supports free enterprise, opposes big business; supports local self-government, opposes the nation-state; supports the National Rifle Association, opposes the Pentagon.

Now I have finished with all earthly business, and high time too. Yes, yes, my dear child, now comes death.

Mind my own business.

I do most of my business on that dirty Internet that you were just talking about, where I find there is a lot of freedom to report exactly what I want.

...words are in a way our godly sharing in the work of creation, and the speaking and writing of words is at once the most human and the most holy business we engage in.

I don't think the advertisers have any real idea of their power not only to reflect but to mould society.

For every mountain there is another one. The big question is if you reach the top of the mountain, what then? What do you do then? I suppose you die.

We didn't actually overspend our budget. The health Commission allocation simply fell short of our expenditure.

Naturally, business and pleasure can be readily combined, but a certain balance should exist, and the latter should not predominate over the former.

Advertisers in general bear a large part of the responsibility for the deep feelings of inadequacy that drive women to psychiatrists, pills, or the bottle.

There is no learning without mistakes

Organizations need to undergo fundamental changes, both in order to adapt to the new business environment and to become ecologically sustainable.

Pleasure is the business of the young, business the pleasure of the old.

So if there is a government grant offered for anything, like starting a business or going to school, they cannot discriminate because of your age.

Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.

So our building of the visible Church becomes much like any natural business function, using natural means and natural motives.

I can see the immense capacity of business to give leadership.

You should choose organisations that are going to be flexible and supportive and recognise people are going through different stages in their careers and actually need different sorts of support.

Like you, I'm fed up with business as usual in Washington. Send me to Congress, and I won't tweak our broken system. I'll shut it down.

There's a terrible truth for many women in the picture business: Aging typically takes its toll and means fewer and less desirable roles.

America has global trade with plenty of nations that provide inexpensive labor, but it's better for us when they're in our own hemisphere, rather than sending that business halfway around the world.

I take around 60 trips a year for business so I can't say that I enjoy the act of travelling itself. I wish I could be transported to my destination without having to go on the journey to get there.

Most magicians are nothing more than laymen with rabbits on their business cards

Publishing magazines for yourself is not good business, man.

I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business.

I'm really private, and also, when I'm home, I'm home. I don't like people in on my business. I believe that you can be overexposed.

Energy markets can be thought of as suffering from appendicitis due to fossil fuel subsidies. They need to be removed for a healthy energy economy.

There isn't a single business where anybody feels secure.

A person in the business of defending criminal cases is going to live in controversy all of his or her life.

An adaptable company is one that captures more than its fair share of new opportunities. It's always redefining its 'core business' in ways that open up new avenues for growth.

Change the world. Build a business. Have fun.

I'm acting when I serve as a hostess, when I run my wig business. I was born to act, and life itself is the greatest part.

There is a great supply of amateur undertakers in show business.

Slavery was incredibly prosperous for some people, at that time. It was not a bad business plan, but it was terrible and inhumane. But as a business it worked.

I have been asked whether it is strange when a big story and big business for you is tragedy or ill fortune for someone else; but the fact is that is how many things in life work sadly.

to move the wheels of justice is a ponderous business.

It was never in my dreams to make my personal life anybody else's business.

A Bit of Craziness Is Good for Business

Fifteen Minutes of Notoriety Beats the Best Advertising Money Can Buy

I would like this to be a new day. I would hope now that we can focus on doing the people's business.

As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive

I've always had standards about writing well. There is art in this business. There is potentially great art.

The adult way to run a business is to run it more like a country. They have disputes, yet they've actually been able to have huge trade with each other. They're not sending bombs at each other.

If you're a person who says yes most of the time, you'll find yourself in the hotel business and the restaurant business.

No matter how confident you are in your own abilities, you can't build and run a business alone. You need your army pulling you ahead, rather than holding you back.

Big business increasingly likes to portray itself as socially concerned, adopting the style of civic action through 'campaigns' of varying degrees of cynicism.